Forgive me if this has been asked before. I couldn't find a mention of it.

When interrupting a render, the output file shows the scene name with -state 
added to it, instead of showing the image up to the moment of rendering. 
Also, that file may be quite large, so I wondered if this was a (future) 
possibility to restart and continue a render at the place where it was 
interrupted? That would be very convenient in fact!

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot wrote:
> Also, that file may be quite large, so I wondered if this was a (future) 
> possibility to restart and continue a render at the place where it was 
> interrupted? That would be very convenient in fact!

The state file does contain continuation information (amongst other things)
and is used by the continuation feature. Note that this feature already
exists in previous versions, albeit in a more limited form - please see the
documentation for details.

-- Chris

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"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> schreef in 
bericht news:4577e449@news.povray.org...

> The state file does contain continuation information (amongst other 
> things)
> and is used by the continuation feature. Note that this feature already
> exists in previous versions, albeit in a more limited form - please see 
> the
> documentation for details.
>
Ah, thank you, Chris!
I have not much used that particular feature. The reason is that I found it 
fairly unstable. I have experienced several times the loss of already 
rendered parts of a scene by adding +C. I don't remember what the error 
message was, or if it was a crash or not. So usually,  I just start again on 
the last rendered row (after saving the previous render) and join everything 
later on.
So, if the feature is more reliable in 3.7, that would be fine of course :-)

Thomas

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Well, as far as I can tell, this does not work correctly (or I am doing 
something wrong!)

Try this:
- start render of Tango.pov
- stop render at any time before completion
-start render again, with +C in the command line

result: POV-Ray starts parsing indefinitely; you cannot stop the render 
anymore; you can only stop it by closing POV-Ray.

Thomas

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Thomas de Groot nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 07/12/2006 08:54:
> Well, as far as I can tell, this does not work correctly (or I am doing 
> something wrong!)

> Try this:
> - start render of Tango.pov
> - stop render at any time before completion
> -start render again, with +C in the command line

> result: POV-Ray starts parsing indefinitely; you cannot stop the render 
> anymore; you can only stop it by closing POV-Ray.

> Thomas 


I can confirm that, not only with the latest beta. I need to kill it using the 
task manager as I can't just exit POV.
Fully patched Windows 2000 pro sp4.

-- 
Alain
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But I thought YOU did the backups...

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Alain wrote:
> Thomas de Groot nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 07/12/2006 08:54:
>> Well, as far as I can tell, this does not work correctly (or I am doing 
>> something wrong!)
> 
>> Try this:
>> - start render of Tango.pov
>> - stop render at any time before completion
>> -start render again, with +C in the command line
> 
>> result: POV-Ray starts parsing indefinitely; you cannot stop the render 
>> anymore; you can only stop it by closing POV-Ray.
> 
>> Thomas 
> 
> 
> I can confirm that, not only with the latest beta. I need to kill it using the 
> task manager as I can't just exit POV.

This has now been fixed.

thanks,

-- Chris

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"Chris Cason" <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> schreef in 
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>
> This has now been fixed.
>

Thank you indeed Chris! Works perfectly!!

Thomas

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